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. . __ ,_ . ?. ..- - ..-?f. ? m - I IJJOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR ^~ EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1892._ ' "_ VOL. LVII. NO. 39. ' I HAVE NO MOTHER NOW I hear the low winds sweeping Through every bush and tree, Where my dear mother's sleeping, Away from home and me. TeaTS from my eyes are flowing, And sorrow shades my brow ; Cold in the grave she's sleeping, I have no mother tfowv 1 see the pale moon shining Upon the sacred stone; The rose bush round is twining, ' Like me, is all alone. > Like me this rose bush weepeth Co?d dew drops damp the brow ; My dearest mother sleepetb, I bave no oomfort now. My life is,oh! so lonely, My heart is troubled sore; Her dearest presence only Could make me weep no more. ".Sbe's gone from me to heaven, , Deep sorrow shades my brow ; The sacred tie is broken, I have no mother now. Sad was the hour of parting, She said in words so sweet : "My loved ones, I am dying; We must in heaven meet/1 Oh. yes, I'll meet you, mother. On that eternal shore,' And there we'll live together, Where parting is no more. Yes, whon this life is over, And time shall be no rflore, With loved ones and with mother We'll live forever more. IEE?D THE BULGE. Three things recently happened at Squolhollow which had never come to pass there before. It had been born anew, through legislative incorporation, into a full-fledged city; it bad erected anew jail, and it was head over heels in debt. In the glory of new existence, official heads swelled rapidly. The mayor and council were soon obliged to have larger hats, while as for the new city marshal, Sol . omon in all his glory took a back seat as compared with him. At least, that is the way Pete Lang horn felt, as he smoothed himself in his new blue regimentals, and if he did not know his own feel ings, who else could?* ., foil; thft.?ity,^Ukft, ,tbe, ip h>U?n4 village, remained perversely peace able. For a month or so the new jail stood without an occupant. Pete was in despair, especially as tho emoluments of his office de pended largely . upon fees. . Fees would not come in without arrests. . and ..as yet Pete had swung his baton only upon the empty air. "If some one don't do something pretty quick," he growled one evening, as he watched a down freight train slow up in passing the Squolhollow station, "blame me if I don't arrest my sel f ! " But at that very moment fate was prepared to be kind. A box car slid open, and & man plunked himself almost at the city mar bhal's feet. He was battered, and tattered, frowsy, and red. Filth enveloped him like a garment, he reeled as he walked, and his breath suggested rum, garlic, and garbage. "Stealing rides, eh?" said Pete, as he collared the man. "Well, you've lit outer that cyar into the wrong town." Then he walked him off to jail. In the morning the mayor, wear ing the first blithe smile which his official countenance had worn in a week, fined Bunkdown Bob fifty dollars for vagrancy, with the al ternative of six months in jail. Pete waltzed him back to the new iron-grated cage, as gayly as if he were accompanying an angel back to St. Peter's gate. "Tell you what, boys," said he that night to a group of political chums, "Jed Rakes" (the jailor) "'lowed he'd got a siuecure. I j reckon I've showed him a little difierent. That fellar can't pay a cent fine. He'll serve his time, an Jed's wife'll have to cook his vit tles. Tell you what, Squolhollow's no place for tramps, outsider our new jail." As days rolled by, however, Bunkdown Bob made himself com fortable. Three warm meals a day, a dry bed to sleep in, no work to do, and winter coming on, pre sented a combination of fortune's favors hitherto as inaccessible as it was alluring. When his first month of official service was up, Jailer Rakes walked round to the city treasurer's office, and presented his account for feeding and caring for the prison er. "It's all right, I reckon," quoth that official, smiling blandly, "but you'll have to wait on us a little. City government is an expensive luxury for such a burgh as this, ; but later on we'll liquidate. Take good care of your prisoner. Squolhollow's going to boom, and we want everything to look fat andjsassy." Jailer Rakes jammed his hands deep down in his pockets, and went back immersed in cogitation. "Rachel," said he to his wife, "we've got to wait on this blamed town another month for my money. Don't you give that fellow but two meals a dav from this time on." Rachel nodded, but kept up the usual number,, for1 she was kind hearted, and hated to break Bunk down Bob's heart by paralyzing his stomach. When month number two was up, Jailer Rake 3 again presented himself for payment. "Good Lord, man I " snapped out the treasurer, for he was mad on his own account now, "how can I pay you when I can't pay myself? There ain't a blanked niokel to the city's credit yet, and what's more, I'm afraid there won't be before you and I go to the poor-house." "Why the--dook here ! I can't live and keep the jail, on wind. Ain't some of the other fellows got their pay yet?" "No. Pete Langhorn wants to resign, and Mayor Doolittle swears he'll sue the town for his'n." "Shoot me if I don't turn the prisoner loo??e!" said Mr. Rakes. And so he attempted to, but Bunkdown Bob refused to be turned loose. "Do yer think I'm a plum fool?" quoth he, thrusting his head out from under the warm blankets in his bunk, "Here it is almost Christmas, cold as blue blazes, and a foot of snow on the ground. I've got four months to sarve and I'm going to sarve.it-see?" Then he curled himself up for another snooze. Mr. Rakes went to the mayor. "I'm going to resign," said he. "Living on nothing and boarding yourself is an awful responsibility. That cussed tramp out there is eating me out of house and home." "Turn him loose*." "He won't go. Swears he'll serve him. Yet what can I do, if the in fernal town won't.feed me?" In this perplexity the city solicitor was consulted. "Can't I kick the fellow out?" asked Mr. Rakes after the situation had been fully explained. "Yes, you could, but suppose the fellow brought a suit against you for assault, and against the city for damages for breach of contract? We fellows wont draw any pay yet, for several months, that's flat. And we oan't fatten this lazy lout until spring without a dollar, nor we can't turn him out. I don't see but what we'll have to compromise." The next tnorniug a group of three presented themselves before Bunkdown Bob, hats in hand, and with the humility of the impecu nious. "Wot are yer giving us?" ex claimed Bob, with his nose in the air, after he had heard the city's case stated. "Do yer think I am going to turn out such weather as this?" "Come now," said the solicitor airily. 1 "We can make it worth your while. How much'll you take to quietly abscond by the next down freight that comes along?" "One thousand dollars-" "Why, mani you're crazy. You're lucky to get off as it is. Take a dollar and make yourself scarse," But Bob knew how to haggle, and came down to one hundred only after an nour of hot argument. The city officials nearly bankrupted .themselves to raise the sumi and breathed freely only when Bunk down Bob saluted the town from the tail end of a cattle car, as it rolled away. So long, gents," he called to the mayor, Who had furtively seen him off. "Look for me back next fall." "If he sh )ws up again in a cen tnry we'll murder him," quoth the city's head. "Amen I" ejaculated Jaile r Rake. A report of a French duel has the following interesting conclu sion: "M. Lelache having fired his shot, it was not the turn of M. Boboche to discharge his weapon. He waited calmly for a moment, brought up his pistol, awaited the word-and fired in the air. This was not, however, so great an act of magnanimity as might be sup posed, for his antagonist had climbed a tree," Lucie-"Ned made a ringing speech last night, Monomer," Mom mer-"Um-um?" Lucie-"Yes. He asked me to be his wife." The Jewelers' Circular. Torture of Damiens. (Paris, Old and New.) It was in front of Notre-Dame ;hat by order of the princes, lukes, peers, and marshals of Prance, assembled in the Grand chamber of Parliament. Damiens vas condemned to do penance be ere being tertured and torn to ueces. He was to be tormented, >y methods no matter how bar >arous, until he revealed his iccomplsces and was also required o make the amende honorable ?efore the principal door of Notre )ame. Thither in his shirt, he ras conveyed on a Bledge, with a ighted wax candle in his hund ?reigning two pounds ; and there he ?rent down on his knees and con essed that "wickedly and traitor usly he had perpetrated the most tetestable act of wounding the :ing in the right side with the tab of a knife;" that he repented f the deed, and asked pardon for t of God, of-the king and of jus ice. After this he was to be car ied on the sledge to the Place de rreve, where, on the scaffold, he ras to undergo a variety of tor ares, copied from those appointed or the punishment of Ravaillac. ' inally his goods were to be con seated, the house where he was lorn pulled down, and his name tigmatized as infamous, and for ver forbidden thenceforth, un er the severest penalties, to be orne by any French subject. Damiens had been educated far bove his rank. His moral char cter, however, was peculiarly ad. His life had been one per? etual oscillation between . debau hery and fanaticism. His chan eableness of disposition was no iced during his imprisonment at rersailles. Sometimes he seemed boroughly composed, as though he ad suffered nothing and had not ing to suffer ; at other times he ?urst into sudden and vehement lassions, and attempted to kill imself against the walls of his ungeon or with the chains on his Bet. As in one of his furious fits .e had -iried-k*-bite- ofth'm tongue, is teeth were all drawn, in ac ordance with an official order. Vhen the sentence was read to im, Damiens simply remarked: La journ?e sera rude." Every ind of torture was applied to him o extort confessions. His guards emained at his side day and ight, taking note of the cries and xclamations which escaped him a the midst of his sufferings, lut Damiens had nothing to con ess, and on January 28 he was arried with his flesh lacerated nd charred by fire, his bones roken, to the place of execution, inmediately after his self-accus ation in frnnt of Notre-Dame he ras taken to the Place de Gr?ve, rhere the hand which had held he knife was burnt with the lames of sulphur. Then he was om with pincers in the arms and 3gs, the thighes and breast, and uto his wounds were poured red Lot lead and boiling oil, with ?itch, wax and sulphur melted ,nd mixed. The sufferer endured hese tortures with surprising nergy. He cried out from time o time, "Lord, give me patience md strength," "But he did not )laspheme," says Barbier in his larrative of the scene, '"nor men ion aDy names." The end of the hideous tragedy iras dismemberment. The four raditiooal horses were not enough. Two more wero added, and still he operation did not advance, ["hen the exocutibuer, filled with lorror, went to the neighboring ?otel de Ville to ask permission o use "the axe at the joints." He vas, according to Barbier, sharply .ebuked by the king's attendants, hough, in an accouut of the trag $dy contributed at the time to the jentleman's Magazine (and de lved from the gazettes published n Holland, where there was no ;ensorship), the executioner was darned for having delayed the em ployment of the axe so long. There ire conflicting accounts, too, as to ;he burning of the prisoner's cal res. lt was said on the one hand ;hat the garde des sceanx, Ma-ch tult, caused red hot pincers to be ipplied in his presence to Dam neB' legs at the preliminary ex amination; but another version leclares this to be a mistake, and tscribe8 the burning of his legs tc ;he king's attendants, who, seeing ;heir master stabbed, are repres ented as punishing the assassin ?y the unlikely method of apply, ng torches to his calves. The torture of Damiens lasted many hours, and it was not. till mid-1 uight, when both his legs and one of his arms had been torn off!,: that this remaining arm ' was dragged from tne socket. The liftf of the poor wretch could scarcely? have lasted solong as did the ex-^ ecution of the sentence passed up on him, A report of the triafcwafc published by the Registrar oiP%h& Parliament ; but the original' record being destroyed, it ie im posai ole to test the authenticity of this report. It fills- four small v?k umes; and is entitled "Pieces ' i Originales et Procedures du Pro c?s fait a Robert Francois Dam ions, Paris, 1757." A Husband's Act Desanpedco, a painter living in the Passy Quarter of Paris, France, shot his wife, killed his mother, and mortaily wounded his brother* in-law ;a few evenings ago. The killing was done in Desanpedro's home. He did not live happily with his wife, and in the after noon returned-home half, -drunk.. He began abusing mother and wife, abd finally struck the latter. When her brother interfered; Desanpedro shouted that they were; all in league against him. He threatened to kill them all, and started for a back room where he' kept his revolver. Hie brother-j in law followed him and graph pied with him. The painter shoot; him loose, got the revolver, ancC shot him in the side. He then' caught his wife, who had started} to run down the hallway, crowded^ 4#er back into the room, and shot her in the breast. His mother screamed for help and tried tdj open a window. He shot her ibui? times in the back and she fei}; dead-Ex. is A Deferred Kiss. Anybody that knows Josiah Smith, son of old Josiah Smith, grandson of old John Smith, and otherwise related to the Smitty; family, knows he is a good, serious practical sort of man who .lc?ks upon alt aides oi a 'question before committing himself toan opinion. When Mr. Smith courted , his wife it took him several years to make up his mind before he asked the important question. Everybody around the house, ?waited and wondered why he didn't pop and if he ever would, but Josiah kept on the even tenor of his way, getting well acquainted with Mary and the family before taking the decisive step. There was a parrot in the house, a wicked, evil-minded bird, who hated Mr. Smith on principle, and never said a word in his presence, or at least never did until-but thereby hang thia tale Josiah had reached the point in his courtship were he thought it advisable to take a kiss-nota hurried smack of affection or an all-devouring oscillatory effect, but the prim, proper, mod?rate kind of kiss that goes with a dec laration pf love, grace before meat*. Taking Mary's hand he asked her to stand np, as the occasion was? solemn one. "We will now indulge in our first kiss," he said in ? formal but convincing tone. "Not much!" croaked a voice that seemed to come from *the air above their heads. "Mary," said Josiah solemnly, "if you can indulge in such un seemly levity at such a moment we are not suited to one another." Poor Mary was . struggling with tears of disappointment, but before she could explain matters to her angry suitor he had taken his hat and left the house. However, the spinster aunt who owned the parrot saw him the next day and explained matters, and Polly had her ears boxed and was shut up, so that the next time Josiah undertook to kiss Mary no ghostly voice prohibited the right-Detroit Free Press. The Canard Steamship Compa ny has just completed and laun ched a new steamer, the Campania, for service between New York and Liverpool. She is the largest steamer in the world, being 690 feet in length, with a tonnage of 14,500 tons, while that of the lar gest of the present fleet of ocean grey hounds does not exceed 10, 500 tons. The Campania is thus * only 92 feet shorter than was the ; Great Eastern, while her weight , is 2,500 tons in exoeis. Nothing in { modern invention has been more rapid or wonderful than the evolu tion of the steamship; and it 1 would be difficult to set a limit to ' its possibilities in the future. A Dead Man's Face. ( -V j - About half au hour before the [train reached Baker City, says a ?writer in the New York Sun, I (happened to look up from- my book and noticed the man on the ifleat ahead of me, who was turned ?so that he was riding backward*. His face was pale, his teeth den? ched and he had both hands clen ched on his heart. I ran for ?orne water, but before I returned he had fallen over. I helped him ,up, gave him water, and then ?whisky, and presently he asked : "Are we near Baker City?" I "Yea, within a few miles." I "Please raise the window." j "What's the trouble?" asked. "Something ' about the heart. ?Pl?ase feel in ray hip "pocket. Do you find a revolver there?" I "Yes." I "Pull it out and see if it is all Sight." < "There are six cartridges here, and the 'weapon seems to be in perfect order." r "Thanks. Turn me to the win ?ow-BO. Now give me the fenn." ? "But you dan't hold it." [ "I've got to. That's the whistle ?or Baker, isn't it?" I "Yes." "Then you'd better move back a seat or twoj A thousand thanks for ?all you trouble." f I moved back, having a dim suspicion of trouble ahead, but not Beening how I could interfere. As'the train ran slowly into the depot he pulled back the ham mer ?and braced himself. As it stopped he made a move of his wrist and hand, uttered a groan and just then there were loud cries on the platform. All of us ran out of the car. A man was being held by two others, while a third had taken his pistol and ,was "That's all right, Tom, but it's no use to Shoot a dead man." I I looked up at the car window. Jherer satiny fellow traveler, eyes closed, jaw down and the mark of dea^f?s?' plain on his face that" alt could read it. His finger was on the trigger of his pistol and the barred of the weapon rested on the windowsill. Death had come to him while his finger pulled at the trigger t send some one else to eternity. Mild ry Brown's Awful Crime. Gov. B. R. Tillman, of South Carolina who is nt the Hoffman House, was seen yesterday by a World reporter regarding the execution of Mildrey Brown, a 16-year-old colored girl, at Spartanburg, Friday. "She was convicted," be said, of one of the most diabolical, cold-blooded murders in the criminat annals of the state.' The testimony showed that she deliberately procured some carbolic acid, opened the infants, mouth while it was asleep and poured the liquid down its throat. The Charleston News and Courier pleaded for executive clemency on account of the girl's age. Another influential paper ea id the law should take its course. "Two long petitions, one signed by citizens of Gaffney City, where .the crime was committed, urging me not to commute the death sentence, and another one in favor of a commutation, were sent to me. I found that our courts had decided that fourteen was the age of consent, and in ?iew of ?he atrocious nature of the murder I decided to let the law take its course"-N. Y.Herael His First Experience. He loved her-very much. He thought he had never loved half so much before. And she? Well, she may have loved him ; that he didn't know-he hadn't asked her. She was twenty. She was the most beautiful creature he had seen. Her hair was black-as ink : her skin was white-as milk ; and her eyes-how brilliant they were I They seemed to look into his soul. And he wondsred if she knew it. He had ne vor seen any body so ravishing to look at-not even in fancy. He had never be fore left his food half-tasted on his plate-not even at the country hotel, He had never before found it a task to close . his eyes at night-not even when he had been sick with fever. As for her, she look upon him with favor; she would take his hand as they walked along the beach, and when the water spread further than she expected on the sand, she would cry: "Look out, Harry, dear.l" or the like; He presumed he ought to be happy-there was no reason why he should not be ; others in bis position would have been. Ab, yes ; it was well enough-until the ffve o'clock ' express from New York came in. Then she would be dressed in something wonderful in blue and gold, or in gray and black, or in pink and white; and she would sit upon the broad piazzas of the hotel and chat and gossip with the men. Of course, when he came up, she treated him civilly, decently, and he had no fault to find-no fault, that is in order. Yet he asked himself' sometimes if she was treating him as an individual or as a species. Eh. bienl One d?V, fourteen Saratoga trunks were loaded on the blue express-wagons at the side door. Agood many of the trunks belonged to her.. She was going away. He sat idly in an [ of the piazza, with his patent leathered feet on the railing. She came to him She was dressed for travel in a ? tailor-cut gown with plaitings of Indian cloth on th? front of the waist, and -with '& black veil that could not hide the sparkle of her eyes. She held out her hand, and then impulsively she took his head in hf r hands and kissed him. What a thrill went through him 1 He looked up-she was gone. Shortly, he heard the rumble of the stage. Then he heardj nothing-except that he imagined that he heard hi heart. He wae all alone, and he let his head drop forward on his breast, and he cried as though his heart would break. For, after all, he was only six years old-Ex. Chloroform in Typhoid Fevc. Dr. P. Werner, physician to the German Hospital at St. Petersburg, has treated with the greatest success, so says Merck's Bulletin,?one hundrel and thirty cases of typhoid fever by using a out-per-cent solution of chloro form (La seim. Med.). In pursuing this, form of treatment the author was prompted by the work bf Behriog on the microbicide action of chlorform upon the bacillus of typhoid ?fever; Hint hie was* not familiar with the observations of Dr- Stepp, of Nuremberfi, who in 1890 successfully administered chloroform in easer of typhoid fever. Dr. Werner employed, as has already been said, a one-per cent solution of chloroform the, patients taking one to two tables spoonfuls every hour or two, night and day, without interruption, as long as.the. fever was at its height. As the disease abated the dose was progressively diminished, al though, even after the fever had completely disappearsd, the medioine was continued for some time, several . teaspoonfuls being given each day. In all the cases where this treatment was commen ced before the tenth day of the disease, the most favorable results were obtained; the patients did not present the regular typhoid condition; the general symytoms were limited to fever' with feeble ness and want of appetite; the tongue neyer. got into that coated, dirty, and loathsome conditon sb characteristic of typhoid fever; the th irs ::, habitully so intense, disappeared in about two days; and the diarrhoea and metearism progressively diminished and soon disappeared altogether. Bed sores were nover observea and relapses were very rare. When the treatment with chloroform was commenced late, the disease being already in the third week, such extremely favorable results were not attained; but even in such cases the treatment proved very useful and was always well borne. Nevertheless, in four cases Dr. Werner observed a jaundice, which in one instance was sufficiently pronounced to advise a suspension of the medicine. Three of these cases were in children ; the fourth occurred in a young man. It might be remarked, in conclusion, that the observations of Dr. Werner agree in eveiy respect with those of Dr. Stepp. The treatment of typhoid fever by choloroform appears to be deserving of the attention of the practitioner, not only on account of its efficacy, which has been proved by two investigators inde pendent of each other, but siso because of its great simplicity. When Jumbo, the mammoth elephant, was dissected, a pint and a half of gold, silver, copper, and bronze coins were found in his stomach. In tho lot there was coins of three kingdoms, two re publics, five dukedoms, two principalities and one dependency. THE DRUNKARD. On feeble and unsteady legs He walks as if he trod on eggs. Whene'er he has to give or take His hands, as with the palsy, shake. To meet your gaze he vainly tries Withjdull, bleared, and;bloodshot eyes Compelled to bear the sign, he shows A swollen, coarse, and crimson nose. His pimpled, blue, and bloated face Of manliness has not a trace. All people near him shun like death His permeating, sickening breath. With ruined health, shattered nerves He suffers tortures he deserves. Sad children and heart-broken wife Through him endure a wretched life. Abhorred and shunned by friends once known He wanders through the world alone. Soon losing self-respect he goes In seedy, torn, and dirty clothes. With raging, hot, increasing thirst Which can't be quenched he's ever cursed. In vain he takes the pledge to stop; With will power gone he has no prop. Asylums, drugs, "gold cures" he tries Hake him insane-unless he dies. '* Down, down, he sinks until in time He in the gutter reeks with slime. From borrowing he begs until For drink he'll steal or even kill. Delirium tremens' horrid sights He sees. With imps and snakes he lights At last with tramps his doom is sealed And then he goes to Potter's Field. And after that? Alas, who knows Where any slave of liquor goes? They have their hell on earth confessed They can't have worse. So let them rest. -H. C. Dodge, in Chicago Sun. An Eccentric Man's Coffin. The eccentricities of an old age are often more startling than the pages of romance, as the following will prove: An esteemed but eccentric old gentleman who lived in a Maine village has had his wishes carried ont by being buried in a coffin in the shape of a chair. For the last fifteen years "he had been unable to rest except in an easy chair, and in that position he purposed to rest , in the grave. His friends endeavored to dissuade hun from his eccentric notion,T5uT he ordered a cabinet maker to con struct the curious casket, which was finished before his death. It waB subiantialy built of white oak with walnut trmmings. He left instructions to have his body placed in a sitting position, the wrists strapped to the arms of the chair, the limbs to its legs, and the head and meek to its back. A glass panel was in front. All these instructions were carried out and the coffin placed in an upright position in a huge box. The chair coffin was kept on exhibition in the room of the deceased for six weeks previons to his death and he took special satisfaction in displaying it to his friends. He was 90 years of age, a wealthy fermer,, and was loved honored by his neighbors.-New York World. Difference in Eloquence. The difference between the eloquence of Demosthenes and ot Cicero, is thus described by a cer tain writer: "When the people heard Cicero they said 'What admirable language 1 What grace ful gestures I' But when they heard Demosthenes they said 'Let us go and fight Phillip." The one gained the praise- of the multitude ; the other moved them to action. The one attracted the attention of the people to himself ; the other direc ted their attention to the work be fore them. The former style of elquence may suit the popular lecturer very well, whose business is to please the crowd, but the latter is what the minister of the gospel wants, His object is not to please men but to do them good ; not to attract their attention to himself, Jbut to point them .to Christ. He who has attained to gospel eloquence is not the one whoso eloquence is praised and admired by all, but the one who forgets himself and is forgotten by other in the message which he delivers. To speak of a min ister's splendid style and grace ful gestures is sometimes doubt ful praise. It were better his style were such that the people would think but little about it af ter they had gone and would har dly know whether he had ges tures at all or not in thinking of the truth he had proclaimed. The truly eloquent man is the one who makes people think of what he says rather than how he says it. [A. R. Presbyterian.] There is little more tantalizing to a man than to go home with something in his mind he wants to scold about, and find company there, and be obliged to act tho agreeable. TO EXPEL SCROFULA from the system, take AVER'S Sarsaparilla the standard blood-purifier and tonic. It Cures Others will cure you. Land for. Sae. /iKC\ ACRES of land Ave miles 40U north, of Edgefield, half'In woodland. On the place there is a comfortable dwelling house, barn, stables, black smith shop, gin, store house, excellent well of water, and springs, and live or six tenant bouses in good condition. Excellent neighbors, and the health is proverbial. - ~" The soil is good and will produce anything that will grow in this lati tude. The place will be sold as a whole or divided to suit purchasers into lots of 60 acres. For particulars apply at the ADVERTISER office. . Notice to Teachers. TEACHERS and applicants to teach will please take notice that the time for examining those who wish to teach in the public schools in Edgefleld county h8s been changed from the first Friday and Saturday in October to the 3rd Friday and Saturday of the same month. Friday has been set apart for the examination of white appli cants and Saturday for colored. JOHN B. ni LL, S.C. E. C. For Sale or Rent. ?P to the 1st of October the beauti ful place belonging to John R. Abney in the suburbs of Edgefield village can be- bought. Besides the residence and servants house and sta ble, there are three tenant settlements on it. The placa contains 143 acres, about 100 of which is cultivatable, and the balance in wood?. It can be bought as a whole, or in three parcels of from 45 to 50 acres each. Only $1,000 cash required, the bal ance on time. D. R. DUR1SOE, Agft. Splendid Farm For Sale. OHO A ACRES of fine land, aboufr ?SJ L z two miles from Trenton, 100 acres just cleared, and made ready for the plow, balance in woods. Borders the railroad % mile. On it are 2 dwell ings,! barn, 1 crib, 4 stables, buggy house, wagon shelter, horse Io'Fplan ked in, and a good wendall complete and; -brand-new.' The Taud hes well and is * beautifully elevated. A fine oppor tunity for watermelon-raising, as there is a railroad switch on the place. Now is the time to get the cream of a ' newly settled place. Will sell cheap and on easy terms. If desired will sell also on the place 3 fine young mules ages 4, 5 and 6, and wagon. For particulars apply to D. R. DURISOE, Real Estate Agi? Edgefield, ? C. . Tax Notice. IWILL be at the following places, on the days and dates named, for the purpose of collecting taxes. The levy for the preseut fiscal year is as follows: For State tax, 4'? mills; or dinary county, 2 1-1G mills; bridge, 1 mill; court expenses, 9-1G mills; school tax, 2 mills. Total mills 10??. A poll tax of $1 on all male citizens between the ages of 21 and 50. There is a special tax of 2 mills on all property in the corporate limits of the town of Edgefleld, including R. R. property, to pay interest on the bonded debt of the town. Also a special tax of 3 mills for school purposes on all property in the Ridge Springschool district,including ! R. R. property ; also a special tax ol' 3% mills on all property in Shaw town ship and that portion of Trenton school district formerly belonging to Shaw township, including all the property of the C., C. & A. R. R. and O, C.G. ?fe C. R. R. in said township and school district, levied to pay one annual instalment and interest on bonds issued to aid in the construction of the C C. G. & C. R. R. : Trenton, Saturday, Oct. 15 Johnston, Monday, " 17 LongBrrnch, Tuesday, " LS Wards, Wed'y til 12 ni" li) Ridge Spring, " arri pm" li) Holson's X Roads, Thursday, ? 20 Mt. Willing, Friday, " 21 Richardsonville, Saturday, " 22 P.B.Watson's, Monday,' " 24 Forrest's Store, Tu's'y,t'l 2 pm" 25 J. C. Caughman's, "Wednesday, " 2G Kinard's, Thursday, " 27 Peurifoy's, Friday, " 28, Dennys, Saturday, " 29 Colemans X Roads, Monday. " 31 A. P. Colemans, Tuesday, Nov. 1 W. VV. Owdom's, Wednesday, " 2 A. S. Werts, Thursday, " 3 Haiti wan ger's, Friday, " 4 Willicms's Mill, Sat'y, till 12m " 5 Stevens Bros., " afr I pm " 5 Pleasant Lane, Monday, " 7 Kirkseys, Tuesday, " ? 8 Rosa, Wed'y.t'l 12m" 9 Callisons from i p. m. Wednesday, 9th, to 12 m. Thursday, 10th. Minors, Th'r'y, afr 1 pm 10 Longmires, Friday, Nov. ll Plum Branch, Saturday, " 12 Parksvill?, M'n'y,tilll2m" 14 Mouoc, " afr 1 pm" 14 Clarks Hill, Tues*y,t'l 2 pm" 15 J.M. Holder's, Wednesday, " 16 Colliers, Thursday, '" 17 Red Hill, Friday, " 18 Quarles's, Sat'y, t'l 2 pm " 19 Meeting Street, Monday, " 21 From the 22nd of Nov. until the 20th of Dec. at the Treasurer's office at Edgefield C? H., after which time 15 per cent, penalty will be added to- all delinquents. AV. L. STEVENS, Treas. E. C. Always ask for "J. M. Cobb's" $3.00 Gent's Shoes and $2.00 Ladies' Shoes, We buy these goods in such quantities as to be able to sell you for $1.00 per pair less than you can find them any where. Our "Crown" brand for $1.25 and $1.50cannot be duplicated either^ in quality or price outside of our store. When you want a good calf lined shoe or genuine Standard Screw brogan call for Marcy Bros. goods sold only by J. M. COBB, Sole Agent. 2 cars Flour, 1 car Tennessee Meal, at E. J. NORRIS'S.